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ISI: Munich International Stone Center for Inequality Research @isi-munich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Come work with us in beautiful Munich! We’ve got an open position for a Junior Research Group Leader in Wealth Inequality Research, an awesome team, and what might be one of the best work-life balances around. And yes, the beer is always cold. 🍺 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@dgskongress2026.bsky.social Liebes Kongressteam, gibt es für heute auch noch die Möglichkeit an der Abendkasse Karten für die Party zu bekommen? Falls nicht: gibt es eine Tauschbörse für Leute die eine Karte haben aber doch nicht teilnehmen können / wollen? #dgs2026

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Heather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks for sharing. Maybe of interest to you: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New preprint! A review article on Generative AI and Society, with the fantastic @thomasdavidson.bsky.social & Danny Karell (smartly not online!) osf.io/preprints/so... The lit on genAI is sprawling and mostly not in sociology. Our goal is to synthesize core themes relevant to sociologists. +

GENERATIVE AI AND SOCIETY
Laura K. Nelson,
Daniel Karell,
and Thomas Davidson

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For sociologists, generative AI inherits the legacy of earlier computational technologies: it is an advancement of machine learning already adopted as a methodology, and it intervenes in a society already shaped by algorithmic systems. Yet it also has a dimension that distinguishes it from previous computational methods, and one that makes it inherently sociological: its interactivity. In this review, we conceptualize the interactivity of generative AI and introduce a framework for understanding how it operates across individual, organizational, and institutional life. Specifically, the framework specifies how generative AI expands users, functions as a proxy for society, and expresses power,
both in sociological practice and in society. We conclude by suggesting three dynamics driven by generative AI that sociology will face in the near future: the transformation of scientific practice, the reorganization of social interaction, and the acceleration of algorithmic governance.

Keywords: generative AI, interaction, computational sociology, methods, algorithms, algorithmic governance

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nach der Landtagswahl in #Sachsen-Anhalt stellt sich die Frage mit neuer Dringlichkeit: Würde Regierungsverantwortung die AfD „entzaubern“? 📊 Unsere Analyse von 1.307 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien zeigt: Die radikale Rechte wird dadurch nicht schwächer, im Schnitt gewinnt sie rund 6 Prozentpunkte.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ich habe hier zusammengefasst, wie die etablierten Parteien entscheidend zur Stärkung radikal rechter Parteien wie der AfD beigetragen haben. Auch als Reaktion auf den Wahlausgang gestern sehen wir wieder die genau gleichen Narrative aus Politik und Medien. Man bleibt im Teufelskreis gefangen.

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Senior Scientist in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! Come join our CCL Team and work on building a research infrastructure for #CSS @medem.bsky.social 🤓 📍 Vienna | 4-year position | full-time Apply via the University of Vienna job portal 👇

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Senior Scientist (Postdoc)

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When we pulled data using the same sampling criteria and timeframe, we found zero overlap between the official API and the other two methods in most cases. No videos in common. 😶

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

When people seek guidance from science, they expect it to work more than once. I have TWO new articles on commercial forces & proprietary models that make science less reliable, with pointers to communities and ideas that might help. This post offers a summary: citizensandtech.org/2026/07/comm...

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New Studies: How Commercial Forces Make Science Less Reliable

Computational social science has been distorted by commercial forces, and AI is making it worse.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We'd be more than happy to connect with @joinprolific.bsky.social and discuss potential safety measures :)

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

After recruiting, if you would forward respondents to a survey environment such as qualtrics: absolutely.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Unfortunately, I can’t make it to #IC2S22026 / #IC2S2 this year, but I hope everyone attending has a great time! For those of you working with Prolific or similar participant platforms, our working paper may be relevant. Maintaining high data quality in CSS will continue to be a major challenge.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

6/6 Here's the link to our working paper: osf.io/preprints/so... Comments and feedback are welcome!

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

5/6 This is not just a problem for survey research. Any online community or platform that assumes a human is completing a task now has to rethink how that assumption can actually be verified.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

4/6 A single instruction could even trigger the completion of multiple surveys in sequence. At the end, the agents conveniently return the Prolific IDs ready to be copy-pasted by the respondent.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

3/6 Most proposed safeguards performed poorly. Browser metadata did not reveal automation. Prompt-injection and “AI trap” questions were consistently passed. Browsers also passed invisible reCAPTCHA v3. Visible reCAPTCHA v2 created the strongest barriers, but even that was not a complete solution.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

2/6 The agents navigated the surveys, stuck to assigned demographic profiles, and produced coherent, plausible responses with little or no user intervention (see the video).

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That sounds great! Would you mind sharing your material ? I will develop a similar course soon and also would be happy to share as soon as I have something presentable :)

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In new joint work with @sebastianjblock.bsky.social, Sandra Jaworeck, Manuel Holz, and Philipp Spielbauer, we examine textual complexity in sociology using a corpus of more than 1,700 full-text articles from major German sociology journals. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So why does this still matter? Because unnecessarily complex writing can limit who can access, evaluate, and build on sociological knowledge. We therefore present a workflow that combines text complexity measures with AI assistance to identify passages that may benefit from revision.

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We show that the most demanding passages in sociological articles have become more complex over time. Textual complexity also differs systematically across methodological traditions. Yet, we find no evidence that complex writing either increases or decreases citation impact.

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/06/2026

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. Internally called “NameTag,” it’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Liebes Kongessteam, kann es sein, dass ihr gerade nicht per E-Mail kontaktiert werden könnt (siehe Screenshot)?

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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 Job: Research Associate (75%, E13) Join my team at @goetheuni.bsky.social! Looking for a researcher in sociology/network analysis for an @erc.europa.eu project on the interplay of children's & parents' networks. Until end of 2028. Info & apply: 🔗 www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

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Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften

Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Early in my PhD, a colleague finishing his (highly rated) dissertation told me he was stuck on the introduction. After years of hard work, he could no longer find an argument for why any of it actually mattered. This stuck with me ever since. A🧵 about this paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Should social science be more solution-oriented? - Nature Human Behaviour

Duncan Watts considers whether many branches of social science could benefit from setting research goals aimed at specific and manageable real-world problems. He gives examples and discusses how more ...

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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is the clearest and most accessible introduction to DML I've ever read: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08324 Congrats to the authors @aahrens.bsky.social, @markeschaffer.bsky.social, et al on this amazing paper and great accompanying R package! I'm now DML-pilled.

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An Introduction to Double/Debiased Machine Learning

This paper provides an introduction to Double/Debiased Machine Learning (DML). DML is a general approach to performing inference about a target parameter in the presence of nuisance functions: objects...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Jetzt an der LMU: Master Computational Social Science (M.Sc.) Bewerbungen für die 2. Kohorte sind offen. Der interdisziplinäre Studiengang verbindet Kommunikationswissenschaft, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft mit daten- und computergestützten Methoden. Info-Sprechstunde: 27. April.

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Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Concentrated academic recruiting. 10% of political science departments produce 60% of all polsci professors in Germany. FU Berlin produced most professors, followed by Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg. In psychology,...

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Claudia Wagner @clauwa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We opened a new PhD position in our department focusing on CSS research on and with AI agents. Please share the job ad and contact us if you have questions: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?...

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

*job* work with my great colleagues at @gesis.org CSS group led by @clauwa.bsky.social and @sebstier.bsky.social

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Puebla et al. (2024). Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(8), e1012296. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you haven't done yet, please try Claude Coworker just to get an idea about its capabilities. It took 2 minutes for it to read our paper, provide perfectly running R-code to justify a case selection across 14 countries using Vdem. Produced a 10 pager underlining our case selection.

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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

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Offene Stellen / Open Positions

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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...

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Who we are - Center for critical computational studies

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